Release Notes: Starting with version 5 of GNU uCommon, inheritability of ucommon thread classes were extended, and what used to be known separately as GNU Common C++ is now merged into and included as part of the ucommon package, using ucommon core classes. GNU uCommon is now also required to support GNU CCRTP (and libzrtpcpp) version 2.0 and later. The latest release of ucommon (5.0.2) adds support for OpenSSL FIPS compliance and a portable cryptographic archiver.

Release Notes: The entire API was reorganized, in part focusing on the formal introduction of "protocols", a concept borrowed from Objective-C and similar languages. A number of new utilities have also been introduced to securely erase individual files and to explicitly destroy forensically useful meta-data.

Release Notes: This version refocuses on the mission of uCommon as a lightweight core runtime library for C++ focused on design patterns, threads, sockets, and security. Other libraries that were recently added have been detached, including ccscript4, which will become part of the next Bayonne release.

Release Notes: Traditional, random, and digest uuid functions have been added. New buffered pipes and child process management support have been added. There is improved shell argument parsing and better mingw32 build support.

Release Notes: Shell parsing was fixed. More importantly, secure cryptographic support was extended to use GnuTLS and Gcrypt as well OpenSSL. The goal is to remove the complexity of supporting different crypto libraries by offering a single API for secure application development.